Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nKIC5-0004CO-AT for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:09:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nKIC3-0005L9-EY for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:09:55 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nKIC3-0005L0-4P for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:09:55 +0000 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nKIC0-000699-83 for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:09:53 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AC25C0120; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:date:date:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:reply-to:sender:subject :subject:to:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=g/8BzbwFHBULiPbr+OWA0TCpxiW+HvDmsK+4ziRe9 Gw=; b=Sa6UGp5tWKYgbkmWE/JJ/paAvaB/YSEioZHr9QcEqZ2Ta4l9OFkUFDDKk VaGVm9ITa4p/4gIPfFWf3jw6/iT0iBnqegPCGJmDKxaUDWXzLrAqPzhwiclCv47W enc5r2Q53mSRb9WD/d611cI1gjB52rEnILeU2Ow/xl4YM22cEO/Yn+h005G0gqso 3DSF2uawUfCe67dNLNw604aykiV2Ti3lRjKgvbIJ+nISm+IlOB2/6ERthgoriAVH +kAjOk/skp0dmVL3yPM8O1C5sf4JlYYq5QgADhMZgv2pQnQw2kfY5a0EBtFjwauP YgBYhNMtjC8z/3Q8VbWGSyLUfMiTg== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvvddrjeeigddvfecutefuodetggdotefrodftvf curfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecu uegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenuc fjughrpefkffggfgfuvfhfhfgjtgfgsehtjeertddtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpefrvghtvghr ucfgihhsvghnthhrrghuthcuoehpvghtvghrrdgvihhsvghnthhrrghuthesvghnthgvrh hprhhishgvuggsrdgtohhmqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeefjeegheetuefhveevudel ueeftdejteeiffetvdduhfdtieefgfeutedtveeggfenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpe dtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehpvghtvghrrdgvihhsvghnthhrrghuthes vghnthgvrhhprhhishgvuggsrdgtohhm X-ME-Proxy: Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <288c1f67-ba83-dec4-5830-c7cc7762da39@enterprisedb.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:09:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.6.0 Subject: Re: pgsql: Move scanint8() to numutils.c Content-Language: en-US To: Joe Conway , Robert Haas Cc: PostgreSQL-development References: <58cca3e9-53b8-e824-7cd4-6e59b4e242b1@joeconway.com> <77f5b16f-cabd-e7e2-db9e-e3e41ff8eec6@joeconway.com> From: Peter Eisentraut In-Reply-To: <77f5b16f-cabd-e7e2-db9e-e3e41ff8eec6@joeconway.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On 15.02.22 20:00, Joe Conway wrote: > I'm not saying it is hard to fix, but it seems a bit cavalier to not > even discuss the potential for breakage. If nothing else we should flag > this as something for the release notes. I don't think we have ever systematically release-noted backend API changes. I don't know whether that would be useful, but a complete treatment would be a significant effort (speaking from experience of porting the mentioned pglogical between major releases).